Ethical responsibility of the psychiatric physician

Abstract

Life in society imposes Responsibility on everyone who makes it up. Applicable in different ways to the physician, it is doctrinally possible to subdivide it into civil, criminal and administrative. In the latter, in the administrative-ethical modality, its analysis is the exclusive responsibility ofthe Councils of Medicine –Federal and Regional. The present work aimed to expose aspects related to the Ethical Responsibility of the psychiatrist, through doctrinal concepts and presentation of the Brazilian normative organization on the subject. The topics covered were: concepts on the topic of Morals, Ethics and Medical Deontology, the disposition of the System of Medical Councils in Brazil and its functions, withemphasis on the regulatory-disciplinary action through the Code of Medical Ethics and thepublication of Resolutions of the Federal Council of Medicine and opinions of the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Ceará applicable to the psychiatrist. It is concluded that the importance of the applicability of Ethics in the context of Psychiatry is notorious, as well as the role of medical councils in the specialty, as they are responsible for the ethical regulation of professional practice.